The big problem with Microsoft Office, on Mac and Windows, used to be macro viruses.
The MS Office macro language is quite powerful and it's possible to write macros that can do all sorts of nasty things, mostly to Office files, and propagate themselves to other Office files. The first line of defense against these is to replace normal.dot with a clean copy then lock it (Mac) or set the read only attribute (PC). --- On Tue, 2/22/11, Dean <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Dean <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Microsoft Works 2.0/3.0 virus - help! > To: "Vintage Macs" <[email protected]> > Date: Tuesday, February 22, 2011, 4:01 PM > Thanks again. > > I was told that a virus can only infect an application, > that files > cannot have a virus. Is this correct? It > doesn't seem that that > could be correct. I don't remember any system wide > problems from > years ago - there could have been. This time trying > to save a file > not only erased it, but froze the computer as well. > Does this mean > that the system folder or something in it, like finder or > system is > infected? Is this possible? > > Thanks! > > Dean > > On Feb 22, 6:11 am, Gregg Eshelman <[email protected]> > wrote: > > --- On Mon, 2/21/11, Dean <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > Tyrone, Christian and Gregg- > > > > > Thanks so much for your responses. You gave me > a lot > > > of info that I > > > have to digest and consider. Some of what you > wrote > > > was over my head > > > technically, so when I have a minute, I'll be > asking some > > > questions, if you don't mind. > > > > > One question I have right now is how can I copy > files to a > > > PC-DOS floppy? If I insert anything but a > mac-formatted > > > floppy into the > > > Quadra, I'll get a message something like "this > disk is > > > unreadable, do you want to initialize it?" > > > > You need PC Exchange installed. This page has the info > on it. > > > > http://home.earthlink.net/~gamba2/pc2mac.html#asw > > > > With that, you can use PC formatted disks and other > media. > > -- > ----- > You received this message because you are a member of the > Vintage Macs group. > The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our > netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To leave this group, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs > > Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ > -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
